What Are Your Thoughts On Mental Health Apps?
What Are Your Thoughts On Mental Health Apps?
I'm a believer in the availability of useful information. But I'm no fan of bogus short term itching of wounds. If you look at every financial crisis, there is this focus on the short term feel good solutions. Today I came across an article titled Why Mental Health Apps Sound Like Millennials and I realized things have gone down even faster than I expected. Mental health is something more serious than a surgery. Modern apps are trying to scale things to millions of users with only thousands of "Therapists" for less than $200 per month.
I can't imagine delivering great personalized service at these rates to this many people even though celebrities are promoting these apps. I've always considered than only education can be delivered through apps when it comes to mental and spiritual growth and it seems that I was right according to anaysis like this one.
Sometimes treating a virus without killing it might make it more hardened and more powerful. In the same way, a little bit of scratching may turn away full recovery causing terrible long term mental health disasters. What are your thoughts on the matter?
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- Mental Heath Apps are Still Good
- I Think They Are OK Option For People Who Can't Afford Better Treatment
- It's A Stupid Fad/Waste Of Money
- The Poor Quality Service & Dependencies on Apps Will Make Tings Worse For The Long Term
- Decent Distraction From Smaller Troubles - Disaster For Serious Problems
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Voted for There are Mental Health Apps? What happened to self-help books?
Voted for Decent Distraction From Smaller Troubles - Disaster For Serious Problems.
Voted for The Poor Quality Service & Dependencies on Apps Will Make Tings Worse For The Long Term.
Voted for The Poor Quality Service & Dependencies on Apps Will Make Tings Worse For The Long Term.
Regards appreciated @vimukthi.
Friend this is one of the unwanted effects of technology. We are surrounded by friends and loved ones, but we do not talk to them.
We prefer to share a state on Facebook saying "I'm sad ..." and then receive a thousand questions and messages of "affection". I can assure you that many of those messages come from people who are a couple of blocks away, but those people They will not go to your house to see you and know how you feel.
We need human contact and prefer to look for that heat in our phones.
Something is not working well.
All best, Piotr.
Voted for It's A Stupid Fad/Waste Of Money.
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Good topic for discussion. I think there is a limit to what we can get from our phone. I think emotional support should be delivered in person by a caring human being. I think in an emergency the Suicide hotline is useful, but as soon as possible another human being needs to see the person who needs help. I think this is also a symptom of what’s wrong with the way we use technology. People need human contact. I think one hundred “likes” on Facebook are no match for a hug and time spent with you in person.
My two cents